If Duchamp Drew Beautifully
Robert Edgar
2005



The thing about bridges is...

well, ya know

you’ll descend on

the other side.

The thing about life is…well, ya know…

It’s a bridge.


While the shortest path between

us is a straight line

Only factory workers move from

day to day, that way.

 

The thing about chance is...ya know

A lifetime of dice rolls

Never produced a single 3-chord blues.

The thing about chance is… well, ya know…

It’s a cage...


And computers can draw both mechanical lines
And lines flowing between thin and thick
Finally rising like some heaven-headed sign.


The thing about youth

Is …ya know

It so often confuses

meaning with truth

And the thing about aging is… well, ya know…

It’s a life.


If Duchamp drew beautifully

His waterfall would descend wetly.

If Duchamp drew beautifully

His waterfall would descend wetly.

...if Duchamp drew beautifully.